Trials and Blessings

I'm highly tempted to ignore any of my responsibilities (outside necessities for my family - but as I type the girls are fighting so maybe I'll include them in the ignoring) and take the evening off!

Here's my afternoon:
 - Took Kitty to the vet for a booster shot.
 - Went to Sam's and bought a new mattress set for Kaylyn.  But it didn't fit in my van.
 - Quickly drove to pick up Morgan at school and got pretty wet carrying the box of book fair flyers through the rain so I could put them into teacher mailboxes
 - Made a fast dash over to Walgreen's to pick up prescriptions
 - Van acted funny while sitting in carline to pick up Kaylyn (radio turned itself off and on, and off again so then I turned it off) but we made it home for the 10 minutes we had before gymnastics so Morgan could change clothes.
 - Tried to leave for gymnastics and van won't start.  Okay, let's figure out something for dinner and prep bedrooms for the big bed switch-around
 - Decided to pull out the bed frame in the garage to make sure it will fit a queen mattress set and discovered standing water.  Wouldn't be so much of a problem if the garage wasn't filled with boxes!
 - Looking at the bed frame, I don't think it will fit the queen mattress set
 - Came inside and my girls are fighting over a polly pockets sized "hairbrush"; they are both now in their rooms mad at each other AND mad at me.

I would say Calgon take me away, but instead I'm going to say Andy's Frozen Custard take me away!  And it may come true since Adam and I get to meet our very giving friend with a pickup truck who has agreed to pick up our mattress set on his way home from work.

Now to continue focusing on the blessings in the midst of trials

 - friends who are willing to help
 - van is in my driveway and NOT somewhere in the middle of the errands I ran this afternoon
 - the girls have toys to fight over (at least today, that may change tomorrow)
 - I can smell freshly baking homemade bread in the bread machine to eat with chicken noodle soup for dinner
 - Kaylyn knocked on her sister's door to say she missed her and could they play (they sure do love each other)
 - I can always get my girls to smile for me, even when they are SUPER MAD at mom.
 - the Van started for Adam when he got home